Uwe Habermann Venelina Jordanova Migrating VFP forms with the free Silverlight Wizard of the dFPUG

Agenda Saturday 2:15 - 3:30 Migrating VFP forms with the free Silverlight Wizard of the dFPUG 3:45 - 5:00 Migration of a VFP application into a Silverswitch solution for Visual Studio 5:15 - 5:45 Extending a Silverlight application with a webcam and multi-touch 5:45 - 6:30 Usage of VFP code in the back-end of Silverswitch applications

Agenda Sunday 8:30 - 9:45 Programming VFP Code in the front-end of Silverswitch applications 10: :15 Conversion of a VFX application into a Silverswitch solution 11:30 – 12:15 Converting reports to Silverswitch and running VFP reports in Silverswitch 12:15 – 12:45 What else do I need to know

* Uwe Habermann * Diplom-Informatiker * FoxPro Entwickler seit FPW 2.5 * MCP für Visual FoxPro * Uwe Habermann * Diplom-Informatiker * FoxPro Entwickler seit FPW 2.5 * MCP für Visual FoxPro * Venelina Jordanova * Master Degree in CS * FoxPro Entwicklerin seit FPD 2.0 * MCP für SQL Server und Application Architecture * Venelina Jordanova * Master Degree in CS * FoxPro Entwicklerin seit FPD 2.0 * MCP für SQL Server und Application Architecture Who is talking?

V&U Ltd. – We and You * Development in Varna, Bulgaria * Projects with VFP and Silverlight * Visual Extend, Silverswitch * High quality for low prices * *

One year since SWFOX 2010 * Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4 * Migration of existing VFP applications with wizards to Silverlight

One year since SWFOX 2010 * dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * VFX – Silverlight Wizard * Silverswitch

The result *

Migrated application * Internet application * Desktop application * Execute VFP Code * At the client * At the server * Supported databases * DBC * SQL Server * MDI user interface

Why Silverlight? * Internet applications * Desktop applications * Platform independent * Data binding * Execution of VFP Code * Use of VFP databases

Why Silverlight? * Modern user interface * XAML * Multi-touch support * Animations, reflections, shadows…

Why Silverlight? * Fulfills all wishes of VFP developers * FREE development tools * FREE distribution to customers

What is Silverlight? * Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, Desktop and mobile applications when online or offline

Requirements for developers * Visual FoxPro 9 * dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * Sedna – Upsizing Wizard * Visual Web Developer 2010 Express * SQL Server 2008 (Express) * Silverlight 4 Tools

Requirements for customers * Client * Silverlight 4 Plug-In (6 MB) * Server * Windows Server * Internet Information Server *.Net Framework 4.0

Example * Migration of Tastrade * VFP sample application * Uses VFP database * Coming not complete with last versions of VFP * But complete on the memory sticks

Tastrade * A short view at Tastrade

What does the dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard do? * Migration of the layout and the data binding of forms * Generation of Silverlight forms into a Silverlight Business Application * Generation of links to start forms

What does the dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard do? * Works with any VFP application * Any?

Requirements for the dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * Database * Primary key in every table * Dataenvironment * All tables * No views or cursoradapters * No programmatical use of tables supported

Requirements for the dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * All controls in the form * No programmatical instantiation of visual controls at runtime * Migration of base classes of controls * No migration of code

dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard How does it work? * Upsizing to SQL Server * Create Silverlight Business Application * ADO.NET Entity Data Model * Domain Service * dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * Test * Business logic

SQL Server Upsizing Wizard * Use Upsizing Wizard of Sedna! * * Upsize VFP database to SQL Server * Structure * Data

Create a Silverlight Business Application * New project * Data model (connection, data access) * Domain service (web service)

New project * Template project * Silverlight Business Application

What does it contain? * Client project (Tastrade) * Silverlight project * Forms * MainPage.xaml * Home.xaml * About.xaml

What does it contain? * Server project (Tastrade.Web) * Startup project, start page * Folder for data model * Folder for domain service * Tastrade.xap * First test

Add data model * ADO.NET Entity Data Model * Connection to SQL Server database * Server:.\SQLEXPRESS * Database: Tastrade * Build project!

Add domain service * Domain Service Class * Actually web service * Select tables * General rule: set all checkmarks * Code for data access gets generated * A short view at the code * Build solution!

The server project is ready! Now the client project and is done by the dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard

dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * Freeware * On the memory sticks * FREE migration of VFP projects to Silverlight * Layout of forms * Execution of forms

dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * 1. What does this wizard do? * 2. Select VFP project * 3. Select Silverlight Business Application * 4. Select forms * 5. Select properties * Properties, which should be set by styles, should not be migrated

dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * Finish! * Forms are opened in the VFP Form Designer * Controls are read * Silverlight forms are created * Test

Where can I run the application? * Windows * Internet-Explorer * Firefox * Chrome * Opera * (Safari officially not supported)

Where can I run the application? * Mac OS * Safari * Firefox * Chrome * Opera

Where can I run the application? * In the future on Linux * Firefox * Chrome * Right now Silverlight Plug-In Version 3.99

The result * Migrated layout * Execution possible

A short view at the generated files *.xaml *.xaml.cs * MainPage.xaml * MainPage.xaml.cs

What to do now? Code examples * Save employeeDomainDataSource.SubmitChanges(); * Next employeeDomainDataSource.DataView. MoveCurrentToNext(); * Previous employeeDomainDataSource.DataView. MoveCurrentToPrev();

Advantages * Quickly and simply generated base for a Silverlight development

Restriction * Silverlight application runs with * SQL Server database * But not with VFP database

dFPUG – Silverlight Wizard * Video tutorial (in German) available at * and on the memory sticks

Any questions?

Thank you very much and have fun with VFP and Silverlight Venelina & Uwe